Alberto Lizaralde's covers a 5 year period of his life where he chronicles, as he puts it, "good times and bad times that will timelessly be repeated." The images start off benign enough with some tender moments but the main body of the work seems more like the "bad times."
The book is set up to form a classical narrative structure in three acts. The book deals with the halfway point between fiction and reality; continuously crossing the line between documentary and the imaginary, the true and the false, the personal and the unfamiliar. It is also a combination of images he has taken and found images that illustrate a particular hardship. The most compelling of these is the photo of teeth with the fold and tear through the middle of it.
For the book cover, a special ink has been used that changes color with the heat of your hand and leaves fingerprints when touched. In this way it becomes a living book, which mutates in a unique and personal way depending on who has it in their hands, making the viewer feel that the inside could also be their story.
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